Dear Family and Friends,
This was our change week and it was a bit different than normal. We received four missionaries but no missionaries went home. Our
four arriving missionaries came from Argentina,Bolivia,Guatemala and
Centerville ,Utah. We did all the normal welcoming things on Tuesday and
Wednesday and once they all met their companions and had some training they went off to their areas.
President added two new assistants this change bringing the number to four. Elders
Paladines and Elder Clement bring their wonderful teaching skills to
aid Elder Durrant and Love in teaching and training around the mission.
We still have many missionaries that are young in the mission and we
will be losing two big groups in the spring so he wanted to have two
more assistants to be out helping get the teaching level raised. This
will help reinforce the things we taught at zone conference and help
with the application of the things we discussed.
Two
of the office elders will also be training two elders for their
responsibilities. Elder Gleason is training Elder Cannon to be the new
registrar(keeper of records) and Elder Stewart is training Elder Clark
to be the new financier. They both have much to learn but seem happy
with their new assignments.They both have big shoes to fill!
We
received notice of who will be replacing us in July. Pedro David
Agazanni and his wife Marie from Cordoba ,Argentina will replace us here
when we finish our assignment. We were instructed to tell the
missionaries so they all found out last Monday in our weekly newsletter.
We are trying not to think about the end of the mission yet but we do
have some things to do to prepare for the Agazannis.
Elder
Foster from the area presidency was in town this week so we spent time
with him when he stayed with us here in the mission home and at various
meetings and dinners during the week. We really love him and his kind and loving way of teaching!
Today
is our oldest daughter Jenny’s birthday. We are so grateful for the
wonderful daughter she is. She has helped us so much during the last few
years while we have been here. She is a great mother and wife and a
great example to us in so many ways. We love her so much!
Have a great week! Love, Mark and Sandy
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